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Azerbaijani Opposition Politician ‘Beat Himself’ In Police Custody (RFE RL)

Prosecutors in Azerbaijan have refused to launch a probe into the severe beating of leading opposition politician Tofiq Yaqublu while in detention last month. Azerbaijani...

North Korea fires two suspected ballistic missiles, Seoul says (Al Jazeera)

North Korea has fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in its fourth weapons test this month, South Korea’s military said, as...

Moscow refuses to rule out Latin America military deployments (Al Jazeera)

Moscow has again refused to rule out deploying military units to Cuba and Venezuela as tensions with the West over Ukraine simmer, saying it is “exploring...

Voting rights: Is US democracy really in danger? (William Roberts, Al Jazeera)

As the US commemorates the death of slain Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, 54 years after his assassination, the battle over...

The prospects of another American (un)civil war (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that “another...

Taliban says all Afghan girls will be back in school by March (Al Jazeera)

Girls’ schools across Afghanistan will hopefully reopen by late March, a senior Taliban leader has told the Associated Press, offering the first timeline for...

Crypto investing is alive and well in Turkey, thanks to lira woes (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

Just off of Istiklal street, Istanbul’s busiest pedestrian walkway, the occasional passerby stops to glance at a screen displaying the prices of cryptocurrencies in...

Suspected drone attack in Abu Dhabi causes fire, kills three (Al Jazeera)

At least three people have been killed and six others wounded when three oil tankers exploded in Abu Dhabi in a suspected drone attack,...

Iran to reopen OIC representative office in Saudi Arabia (Al Jazeera)

Three Iranian diplomats have arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah to reopen Iran’s representative office to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Semi-official Iranian media reported...

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